Tet is the letter of the vessel containing the great mysteries of life. Its numerical value is 9, the number of months for a woman's pregnancy. It is also the vessel of the blessing of peace, which is the most basic of all blessings: without having peace, the soul and the nation cannot receive any other blessings. The inverted form of the letter is a symbol of the hidden, concealed good, the potential hidden in the actual, visible part of reality. "Beauty" has many synonyms in Hebrew, the word for the highest form of inner beauty, personified by Rebecca and Bat Sheva is a derivative of the word "good", TOV. These women are described as "very beautiful (goodly) in appearance". On the painting, the confusion of black lines, with bright colours shining through it refers to the hidden good in the visible world, where all that happens is for the highest good. Even when we cannot see with our limited vision how something can be "good", the Providence of the Good God is such for his children that EVERYTHING that happens to us is for our benefit in some mysterious way. The letter TET is the basic consonant of the word for "staff". This word is associated with "snake", for Moses used his staff, changing it to a snake, to show a sign to Pharaoh. The snake is also a symbol of consciousness. In the Garden of Eden, the snake fell short of its original function of being helpful to man, and led him onto a path of self-destruction. When rectified, the snake represents the power to judge properly, and the highest consciousness associated with the coming of the Messiah. On the painting, the snake reaches up to the highest realms of the angels, and represents our striving for superconsciousness. It is said that "Michael, the angel of water, and Gabriel, the angel of fire, do not extinguish each other." In the painting, the blue and orange shapes represent these two angels and the peace and harmony between them in the spiritual realms. It is the task of God's Chosen People to draw down this harmony of heaven, and reconcile all the opposing elements of earth in the love of God. The shofar (ram's horn) near the bottom of the painting is a reminder about the nine blasts of the shofar and the nine blessings recited on the feast of Rosh HaShanah, calling all Jews to awaken to an awareness of God's love in the past and in the coming New Year.